abandoned Sun facility

[Michael Lee]

Reminds me of what I see happening in my home town of Schaumburg, IL.  
There is an old IBM/AT&T building which was vacated and they have 
started remodeling or demolishing this week.  I wouldn't be surprised if 
people on the list hadn't touched something from that building in one 
way or another.  There was a lot of "firsts" and history in the 
building.  Interesting stories, can't share too much unfortunately, but 
what I can is the public knowledge.  The building had IBM, AT&T and 
Advantis.  These were mainly network services divisions which Advantis 
was a co-op between Sears and IBM.  At some point the group has changed 
hands several times back and forth, most recently in the news for 
transferring back to AT&T.  There are some telecomm and e-commerce books 
which detail all that, but some rumors include stories of the starts of 
the "Prodigy" and development testing of Roadrunner cable modems in the 
building.  Along with a lot of this recent history happening during the 
mid-90s to 2005ish...  we'll just say IBM "e-business," AKA webhosting, 
outsourced services has quite a bit of history there and it's 
customers.  Alas now the building has been stripped out, and the data 
center floors/ACs seem to be removed and exposed to the outside where 
they cut away at a face of the building.  All I know is the recent 
history, who knows what other secrets and stories from decades past 
there are out there.  I always wanted to know more about the 
water/liquid cooling pipes under the raised floor and closets and what 
they must have been connected to at one time.

But to get back to my point, wonder what other stories there are of 
behind the various abandoned tech buildings throughout.




Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> http://www.abandonedbutnotforgotten.com/sun_microsystems.htm
>
> Rows of servers?  A heck of a mess,  there,  and I have no idea what I'm 
> looking at in terms of any of that equipment...
>
> Thought it might be of interest to some,  anyhow.
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